Genre: Docu-series
Directed by Rowan Deacon
Starring: Jimmy Savile
Production company: 72 Flims
Distributor: Netflix
Plot: Jimmy Savile was one of the United Kingdom’s most beloved TV personalities. Shortly after his death in 2011, an investigation prompted more than 450 horrific allegations of sexual assault and abuse, with victims as young as 5.
The documentary was brilliant.
Pros: I say brilliant because it was wonderfully but together how much Savile pull the wall on the nation and got away with it. You will be surprised who they got to do sit-down interviews with? and also I like how perfectly paced well throughout this being just 2 episodes.
Cons: It gets sickening and disheartening to sit through at times & these 2 episodes went along a little too long.
Interviewees:
As well as colleagues, associates and victims of Savile, some of the public figures interviewed for the series include:
- Lynn Barber – journalist
- Ian Hislop – editor of Private Eye
- Mark Lawson – television critic
- Martin Young – television reporter
- Meirion Jones – investigative journalist
- Roger Ordish – BBC producer of Jim’ll Fix It
- Dominic Carman – journalist
- Robin Butler – Civil Servant and Private Secretary to prime minister Margaret Thatcher
- Alison Bellamy – journalist and Savile’s biographer
- Selina Scott – television journalist
- Marjorie Wallace – investigative journalist and founder of the charity SANE
- Carine Minne – forensic psychotherapist.
- Andrew Neil – newspaper editor, journalist and television interviewer
I recommend watching this docu-series only on Netflix.
Rating: 8 out of 10 Stars
Ryan Balkwill.
Resident documentary reviewer,
Level Best Art Café.